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Ernest Rwamucyo, Rwanda’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations.
Africa

DR Congo: Rwanda calls for neutralisation of FDLR, withdrawal of foreign troops

Wednesday, January 29, 2025
Captured fighters from DR Congo government coalition in Goma. M23’s entry into Goma, despite the futile efforts of the UN, SADC, and around 1,500 European mercenaries, has triggered a media and diplomatic firestorm. 

The Rubicon has been crossed, the only way is forward for the M23

Wednesday, January 29, 2025
A home hit by a bomb in Mbugangari in Rubavu District on Monday, January 27. Photos by Germain Nsanzimana 
Africa

PICTORIAL: DR Congo shelling damages homes, schools in Rubavu

Tuesday, January 28, 2025
Due to bombshells from DR Congo, shops near the Rwanda-DR Congo border were closed on Monday, January 27. Germain Nsanzimana
Editorial

DR Congo’s shelling of Rwanda will only complicate an already bad situation

Tuesday, January 28, 2025
More than 4,400 inmates escaped from Munzenze Central Prison in Goma, the capital of North Kivu province in eastern DR Congo, on Monday, January 27.
Africa

Inmates escape from Goma prison amid M23 rebel advances

Monday, January 27, 2025
The New Times
Editorial

DRC cannot outsource solutions to its crisis, it must own its affairs

Monday, January 27, 2025
Rwanda’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Amb. Ernest Rwamucyo addresses the UN Security Council in New York on Sunday, January 26. Courtesy
Africa

Kinshasa could have avoided current crisis, says Rwanda envoy

Sunday, January 26, 2025
European mercenaries fighting alongside FARDC in eastern Congo. Courtesy

The European Union’s empty words on the DRC crisis

Sunday, January 26, 2025
The M23 rebels in eastern DR Congo said on Sunday, January 26, “the airspace over Goma is now closed.
Africa

DR Congo: M23 rebels say Goma airspace closed

Sunday, January 26, 2025
Rwanda government spokesperson Yolande Makolo on Saturday, January 25, condemned the choice of words in a statement issued MONUSCO. In a post on X, Makolo said the UN mission’s call for a final solution is shocking and needs to be condemned and retracted.
Security

Rwanda condemns MONUSCO’s use of Nazi Germany language in eastern DR Congo conflict

Saturday, January 25, 2025
UN peacekeepers in a helicopter in eastern DR Congo. MONUSCO on Friday, January 24, 2025, said it had conducted joint day and night patrols with the Congolese army and supported the deployment of Congolese forces’ heavy artillery and attack helicopters destroying M23 equipment.
Africa

MONUSCO ignores M23 rebel warning, intensifies support to Congolese army coalition

Saturday, January 25, 2025
Patrick Muyaya, the Spokesperson of the Congolese government.

Denying citizenship as a weapon of war: DRC’s gamble against M23

Friday, January 24, 2025